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In the wake of the Blaster worm a new breed of virus popped up ... the "benign bug". New variant of Blaster worm "fixes" infected systems
Seems to me that someone would be doing the world a favor (mind you this is a hypothetical favor in a hypothetical world) if someone were to come up with a benign bug that would delete Netscape 4x from a system and (perhaps) replace it with something a little more modern. Maybe we could call it the "Model A" virus. Or maybe the "Enema" virus. Just a thought ...
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Creating a virus that would hit say, mozilla.org downloading and installing Firebird would crush the server. Very bad idea. Because then no one would be able to download the magnificent browser .
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Do that but download/install Firebird, then despatch an httpd server to host the Firebird .zip, and dynamically modify the virus to point to your IP before it's sent out on the next round. It'd help save mozilla.org but it might kill all the other networks 
(again, not advocating this kind of activity)
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| downloading and installing Firebird would crush the server |
You're right. Our hypothetical coder would need to make the virus lie dormant for a random amount of time (perhaps from 1 to 60 days). Help distribute the load a little.
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| Do that but download/install Firebird, then despatch an httpd server to host the Firebird .zip, and dynamically modify the virus to point to your IP before it's sent out on the next round. |
I like. I like. Not that someone should do this. Oh, no, never that.
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